http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/ Garner, IA News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/8afe25847aadd1a432cfe526792420b9.html Lickliter the son of a basketball coach has two thirdgeneration candidates under his wing at Iowa http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/da484f3d3a88908f6bfffed01d95b877.html Some are delaying projects and freezing salaries By The Associated Press http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/061c13c291a8e05c056cfdcfede19525.html Ten weeks into the National Football League season and two teams stick outFirst the Tennessee Titans are 90 but don't garner the same adoration than they would if they had golden boys Peyton Manning or Tom Brady calling signals Second the Detroit Lions are 09 Leave it to the Lions to boost the selfesteem of the Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs giving them someone to point to and say At least we're not themThey're professionals after all As impressive it is to go undefeated in the regular season against toptier talent it's just as mindboggling for a team to go winlessOne would think the switch would flip on for the athletes who have worked hard to get to the highest levels of their sport allowing them to outperform someoneCatch a team on a bad day and a win can literally be fumbled to you Luck has played a part in many fluke wins but in sports you make your own luck The only thing being made in Detroit are Allen Iverson jerseysThings don't look to be getting better The Lions played two quarterbacks who saw their first action of the season in a 3814 loss Sunday to the Jacksonville JaguarsOne was Daunte Culpepper The Lions seem to be pinning your hopes on a QB who wasn't good enough to lead the vaunted Raiders offense Wasn't Scott Mitchell availableThe remaining seven games are against teams with a combined 4023 record including those undefeated Titans It will be a big surprise for them to avoid being the eighth NFL team in history to go winless and the first since the 1982 Indianapolis Colts were 081 in a strikeshortened season The worst was the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 014 Coincidentally the 1942 Lions were 011I think the team's cheerleaders can replace pompoms for sticks with white flags on the endThe NFL is worried about the perception of its players and the league An organization going winless would be a black eye any pro sports league would want to avoidMaybe NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell can work out a deal and trade the Lions to the AFL for the Philadelphia Soul The AFL champs' names insinuate they have something the Lions don'tBut the Lions their fans and the league can look on the bright side The Miami Dolphins began last season 013 finishing 115 and less than a year later are legitimate AFC East title contendersHeck 09 isn't even the team's worst start this decade They can still avoid matching or surpassing their 012 start in 2001Former President and General Manager Matt Millen fired earlier this season was a big factor drafting wide receivers Charles Rogers Roy Williams and Mike Williams in the first round of three straight drafts from 200305 Don't forget he went one full year without drafting a wide receiver selecting Calvin Johnson with the No 2 overall pick in 2007 Only Johnson remains on the current rosterThe results are a byproduct of many different failures throughout the organization and not just Millen or the players on the fieldGoodell has tried to clean up the league and its image Try getting tougher with organizations unable to be competitiven Contact the writer: 319 3688679 or kjpilchergazcommcom http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/dc19b730f257f4c342c9252c4c66081f.html Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria and Chicago Cubs catcher Geovany Soto are named the Jackie Robinson Award winners as the top rookies in the American and National League respectively http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/88a9340945c9055800617d9faf2cb597.html The Clear Lake School Board will hold another public hearing concerning the sale of Lincoln School and the former district administrative office at 5 pm Monday Nov 10 The school districts attorney recommended the board hold the hearing before finalizing the sale The School Board has accepted offers on both properties Lori Brakke owner of White Sail Spa placed an accepted bid of 177500 on the administrative office Ken Wilhelm an architect and construction manager for Leon Lauver and Associates of Norfolk Neb was the high bidder for Lincoln School with a bid of 200000 In other School Board business the Board has decided to allocate 1200 from the 150000 gift left to the district by the late Marcia Connell to fund counseling for students at the Alternative School The Clear Lake School District participates in the Alternative School with the Ventura and Garner School Districts Clear Lake has four students enrolled in the school Mary Swenson a counselor in the Clear Lake School District has volunteered to provide counseling services The proposal suggests at least three hours of counseling every two weeks for students in the program http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/31f6ba41e3f60ecb9f5693e84c86b271.html by Lowell Washburn Imagine this A powerful fall weather system had just topped the Rocky Mountains and was careening eastward toward the Mississippi river At the same time a huge Canadiancold air mass was sliding down from the north while warm moist air pulled up from the south Call it a Weather Bomb Widow Maker Perfect Storm whatever Any way you looked at it the atmospheric brew spelled trouble for the Heartland But no one was looking The year was 1940 Primitive by contemporary standards professional weather forecasting was something that most folks put little stock in In fact according to the National Weather Services own data no one was even in the building at Chicagos Midwest Weather Headquarters during the late night hours of Nov 10 1940 During the wee hours of the following morning the systems combined energy unleashed a storm of unfathomable fury Barometric pressures plunged to some of the lowest ever recorded reaching a record 2892 inches at Charles City By then the storm had already began to cut its thousand mile wide path of death and destruction Within 24 hours the system would become the most famous and disastrous blizzard in US history A storm without equal it is remembered as the day the winds descended the heavens rained ducks and duck hunters died For midwestern waterfowl hunters the fall of 1940 was warm and uneventful And as the doldrums continued into the second week of November hunters were becoming impatient Cocking an eye to the North they watched and waited Sooner or later the inevitable cold fronts would arrive andbirds would move south For those willing to stick to their marshes the annual Big Push would be a sweet dreamread more http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/6d8e5f59b0cf17c2672bc1132af15c03.html SIOUX CITY A Garner man was convicted Thursday in federal court in Sioux City of mailing a pipe bomb to his former supervisor http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/iowa/garner/content/700f027413f8025cac93c876ecec5d48.html Former GarnerHayfield standout Ryan Bakke will be one of six former high school gridiron greats inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame at the UNIDome on Friday Nov 21